I have learned so much from Margaret Drabble's work. Her prose is very beautiful, very funny, and at the same time very serious -- SALLY ROONEY Each of Margaret Drabble's novels has been an accurate, honest record of its time in the idiom of its time -- URSULA K. LE GUIN Absorbing and thought-provoking * * The Sunday Times * * A remarkable mixture of . . . compelling narrative, psychological insight, generous human portrayal, acute observation, humour, horror, beauty and disgust * * Times Literary Supplement * * Confident and marvellously accomplished new novel * * London Review of Books * * One of the most thought-provoking and intellectually challenging writers around * * Financial Times * * One of our foremost women writers * * Guardian * * One of the most versatile and accomplished authors of her generation * * New Yorker * * The novels brim with sharply observed life and the author's seemingly infinite sympathy for "ordinary women" -- JOYCE CAROL OATES * * New Yorker * *
